Double-disk wheel for automobiles



Jan. 8 1924.

W. E. WILLEAMS YLJOUBLE I-)ISK WHEEL FOR AUTOMOBILES Filed 'June 4, 1920 .N @E m. SWE

Patented .l 1924. l Ni'rso s-TAs WILLIAM IER/A STUS WILLIMS, OF CHCAGO, ILLIN'IS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES,` OF CHICAGO,V ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

DOUBLED-ISK WEEL FOR AUTOMOBLES.

Application inea June '4, 1920.' serial No. 388,443.

To all whom` t 'may concern:

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Be it known that I, VViLLrAM ERA-eros VILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Ste-te of-l Illinois, have invented afnew and useful Improvement in Double-Disk Wheels for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make :t very stiff and very light disk wheel composed of two disks shaped and 'fitted in an automobile wheel in e manner to produce an inexpensive wheel oering great resistance to side strains.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is-a front elevation of mywheel. l

Figure 2 is a sectional elevationl on a. larger scale than that of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail involved in the ias lening of the rim. i

In the drawing'l indicates the ordinary rim of the clincher t pe used in automobiles, here shown in the emounteble pattern. 2 indicates the ordinary hub, here shown 'as the rear hub. 3 indicates the ordinary brake drum. The hub 2 has a fixed rear or inner Y flange 4 end a detachable front or outer u of the block 8 and is bent inward et 10, 11

to engage the. inner and outer peripheral faces of the block. ,The rear. disk is similarly arranged, with oilsets or shoulders 12,

13 which engage the same peripheral surfaces on the opposite'side of the spacer'.

' This method of embracing the filler "block 8 permits the said block tobe made out of a single piece of lumber if desired` and no matter if the lumber cracks or splits it will still be retained within the embrace of the two plates 6 andiby reason ofthe shoulder insets or curved annuler-portions 10 and 11 of the `front l disk and 12 and 13 of the rear disk.

The curved or inset portions 1Q and 12 furnish a bearing on the outer 'fece 'of the insert block 8 and thus strains 'actingto bent laterell ment or support for the edge of the rim 1.

The two disks und th'e flange 15 of the rim 14 are secured together by a series of rivets 17 which secures the rim 14 and disks 6 and 'Y in substantially a unitary structure. At intervels around the rim as desired,V

l fasten in a series of nuts 18 which secured in place by having their outer ends 19 flanged out into counter sunk apertures in the flange 15 of the rim 14. These nuts are 'used torl securing a series of studs (or screws 2() which pass through a seriesf' lugs 21-which hold the deinountable rim 1 on to the rim or felice 14, thus producing;-

what is called a wheel having a demountable rim equipment. A

The lugs 21 are substantially wedges which vsecure the rim 1 on to the elloe 1% `and ere here shown of a. slightly diierent construction from the ordinary wedge clips used with demountable rims.

However, with my rim 111 as shown, the ordinary demountable run clips may be used. The arrangementof the two disks con necting to the ilangedfrim or felice l' produces e very strong construction end yet s very light one to be secured with this type of wheel. A

1.' The combination with a hub, oi'- two `wheel disks widely separated et the hub and outwardly converging to meet at a short distance within the circle of a elloe body and extend outward, from-.the line of meeting, in annular Contact, and means for `rigidly binding together at short intervals vthe annular portions thus in contact.

2. The combinationwith an annular clloev member having at one side a broad,"

plane, annular, inwardly-extending flange,

of two 'disks having plane peripheral zones I overlapping each other and said flange and in contact with the inner side of seid mem er, means rigidly uniting seid zones at short; intervals, said means securing theunited zones to said fiange, and means for detachably securing rim-atiiach ingiwedge's to said Harige and zones.

3. nawheelof the class described, two dished disks spaced apart vat the huhf` anni.

- joined together at their outer margins and provided with e. horizontal main felioe member wikken .inwardly extending 'ange and :iy series of threaded nuts passing through the tivo disks and secured into the inward projecting flange of the felloe whereby the said nots furnish threads for ai series of clip sorewshand at the saune time `assist in binding* together the margins of the disks and the inwardly projecting iiange of the elloe. 

